Analysts say Huawei was successful in launching smartphones in the premium segment and capturing the mid-tier segment

Huawei became the top brand in a declining China market and captured the second spot in the global smartphone shipment rankings for the first time in a single quarter, beating Apple. Huawei has been expanding aggressively in Europe and Africa, though it is blocked from the US.

Still, analysts said that Huawei's accomplishment was more than a blip.

Apple recorded a stellar quarter but was still overtaken by Huawei in the smartphone sales world rankings.

Samsung Electronics, the biggest smartphone maker globally but nearly a bit player in China, on Tuesday posted its slowest quarterly profit growth in more than a year as its Galaxy S9 lost ground to rivals.

"The launch of the new model - OnePlus 6, the one-model-a-year strategy, strong partnership with Amazon, whereby we leverage their resources, and offline expansion in partnership with Croma, and the five offline and one experience stores has helped us connect with the Indian consumers", said Agarwal. The company reached over 40 percent market share in the premium segment (Rs 30,000-plus) in the April-June quarter compared to 9 percent in the same period previous year in 2017. In terms of year-on-year growth, HMD Global's Nokia (782%), Tecno (59%), Xiaomi (43%) and Huawei (41%) were the fastest growing vendors, while brands such as Lenovo, Gionee, Micromax and Sony registered highest drop in shipments during the June quarter, according to Counterpoint.

"The continued growth of Huawei is impressive, to say the least, as is its ability to move into markets where, until recently, the brand was largely unknown", Ryan Reith, program vice president with IDC's Worldwide Mobile Device Trackers, said. Pathak also noted that Honor is driving overseas growth for Huawei. Its not just Samsung though, most companies relied on discounts and deals. Huawei gained the second position with the total smartphone shipment of 54.2 million globally during the second quarter.

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Apple's stock has climbed by 23 percent so far this year, compared to a 6 percent gain for the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Apple said it expects revenue of $60 billion to $62 billion for the fiscal fourth quarter that ends in September 30.

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In any case, Mr Sessions recused himself from the investigation in March previous year and does not have the power to stop it. Trump has steadily attacked his attorney general for recusing himself from the Russian Federation probe.

As per a latest blog post for developers, Google is making it clear that Android P phones will not have more than two cutouts. Specifically, Google is limiting the number of notches - or "cutouts", as they're technically called - to two.

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